Viridescence

Through all that is happening, I’ve come to the conclusion that not all great discoveries are good for the progress of humanity. It seemed that way for a long time, basically since 2144 AD, when the purity of man's green technology reached a tipping point that freed us from energy scarcity, a dying planet, inequality, hunger, war, and even poverty. Through discovery and technology, the human race was saved at long last by our ingenuity. We didn’t have the problems of our ancestors to hold us back anymore.   All that changed in year 2875, which was only seventeen years ago from this recording.   This fragility of society didn’t seem possible to me, that our utopian Earth hundreds of years in a stasis of comfort and peace could irrevocably be upended in a measly seventeen years. All from one single new discovery. But that’s exactly what happened, and I think most people are still in denial about it. It is, after all, difficult for people to admit something as revolutionary and romantic as being Tethered is something we'd be better off without.